MenuItem tinting on AppCompat Toolbar

Question

When I use drawables from the AppCompat library for my Toolbar menu items the tinting works as expected. Like this:

Answer 1

Setting a ColorFilter (tint) on a MenuItem is simple. Here is an example:

Drawable drawable = menuItem.getIcon();
if (drawable != null) {
    // If we don't mutate the drawable, then all drawable's with this id will have a color
    // filter applied to it.
    drawable.mutate();
    drawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);
    drawable.setAlpha(alpha);
}

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The above code is very helpful if you want to support different themes and you don't want to have extra copies just for the color or transparency.

Click here for a helper class to set a ColorFilter on all the drawables in a menu, including the overflow icon.

In onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) just call MenuColorizer.colorMenu(this, menu, color); after inflating your menu and voila; your icons are tinted.